Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1920 — HOW DISAPPOINTING IT MUST HAVE BEEN [ARTICLE]

HOW DISAPPOINTING IT MUST HAVE BEEN

It Is evident that anything shaped in oak these days is given the “once over” at least by the freight handlers and oth’ers who have the opportunity, in the hope that the barrel, no matter how labeled, may contain booze. The Democrat got in a 250-pound barrel of newspaper ink this week from a New York ink factory, and the barrel gave evidence of having been tapped a couple of times by driving a large nail through one of the near the head. The seekers after alcoholic liquors must' have been " awfully disappointed when nothing more palatable than printing ink oozed from the incisions.